Las Vegas Weekly : - The Last Airbender. Review: The Last Airbender - Cinematical. Share photos on Twitter. 'The Last Airbender' Review: Worst Movie Epic Ever? Asian Americans, I hear your agitation. For the past few weeks, you and your allies in ethnic correctness have clogged the blogosphere with complaints about the casting in M. Night Shyamalan's live-action movie version of the Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Yes, the main villain roles among the rapacious Fire People are played by men of Indian descent (as is Shyamalan). Yes, Aang, the show's Chinese hero, is played by a Caucasian boy named Noah Ringer; and two other pasty white kids, Nicola Peltz and Jackson Rathbone, were chosen to impersonate Aang's main pals, Katara and Sokka. Actually, the actors who voice the Asian roles in the TV series are Caucasian too — but never mind that, because, yes again, it's a shame the film's producers couldn't find suitable Chinese youngsters among the 500 million or so on earth.
You can relax, bloggers. Oh, the humanity! One word in the TV show's title — Avatar — reminds you, by its absence, what The Last Airbender is missing. 'The Last Airbender': Bad Reviews--and Accusations of Racism - S. Fan Aang-uish for The Last Airbender Is Epic. 'The Last Airbender': Three things I liked about a mostly disapp. Image Credit: Industrial Light & MagicLast Thursday, I wrote about my angst over seeing The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan’s live action adaptation of the acclaimed Nickelodeon animated series known formally as Avatar: The Last Airbender. My kids and I were big fans of the anime-style cartoon, and we had been eagerly anticipating the flick. But after reading the reviews, which were almost unanimously negative to the extreme, I found myself in a parenting pickle: Should I discourage my two children from seeing the film, or should I take them anyway and let them make up their minds for themselves.
I decided on the latter course of action, and it was the right call. We went on Saturday evening. The verdicts? I left the theater disappointed; my son, age 9, was enthralled by the experience. Still, for all the disdain heaped on the movie, and for all of my own disappointment, I didn’t hate it. GET MORE EW: Subscribe to the magazine for only 33¢ an issue! 1. 2. 3. 'The Last Airbender' Gets Last Laugh on Critics at Box Office - In Defense of M. Night Shyamalan: Last Airbender and the Disappe. M. Night Shyamalan. Photo: CynSimp, WikiMedia Commons. People love or hate M. Night Shyamalan. Could it be that many of the haters are just experiencing a lack of comprehension of Shyamalan\’s storytelling style?
Shyamalan thinks so—and so do I. In a recent interview, Philadelphia area’s M. I couldn\’t agree more. The Village is the hallmark of an effective story Others call The Village weird, slow-paced or confusing. Many naysayers of “The Last Airbender†are fans of the original animated series. That\’s the other thing about Shyamalan—his storytelling method is very deliberate. “Lady in the Water†is another frequently-trashed Night flick. I was so intrigued by “Lady†that I watched it twice immediately, quickly realizing that the movie isn\’t about its own plot, but the construction and completion of the story itself. I respect that people have differences of opinion when it comes to entertainment. Shyamalan fixed many things that irked me in the cartoon. Helpful links: